page_title: Thomas Guthrie
section_title: Memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Guthrie / Memorials
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to Thomas Guthrie in the Thomas Guthrie School
context_page_description: Very Rev Thomas Guthrie FRSE DD was a Scottish divine and philanthropist, born at Brechin in Angus. He was one of the most popular preachers of his day in Scotland, and was associated with many forms of philanthropy—especially temperance and Ragged Schools, of which he was a founder.
context_section_description: Tributes in memory of him include the following:
  A fine statue of him, in Portland stone, stands on Princes Street in Edinburgh. (This faces Castle Street; it was executed by the sculptor F. W. Pomeroy, and  erected in 1910.
  An eloquent preacher of the gospel. Founder of the Edinburgh Original Ragged Industrial Schools, and by tongue and pen, the apostle of the movement elsewhere. One of the earliest temperance reformers. A friend of the poor and of the oppressed.
  A plaque on the south wall of St. Giles Cathedral, executed by Pilkington Jackson
  A plaque in the Thomas Guthrie School (later named "Guthrie Court")
  A memorial in Brechin Cathedral (to him, and to his wife)
  A sandstone bust is incorporated into the front wall of a house (now Creag Dhubh guesthouse) in Inveraray commemorating his stay in the house during the summer if 1866
caption: Memorial to Thomas Guthrie in the Thomas Guthrie School
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